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Rising above the propaganda: German medallic art in Britain (1914–1919)
During the First World War museums in Britain faced numerous challenges to their collecting and display strategies. Many museums were temporarily closed owing to a cut in government grant aid, which proved severely restrictive to available display space and caused considerable controversy, both in Britain and in Europe. In Vienna,...Hockenhull, Tom
medals and World War I
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Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Some thoughts on bird sacrifices in Ancient Greece
Sokrates’ famous last words, ‘Krito, I owe a cock to Asklepios; will you remember to pay the debt?’, as reported in Plato’s Phaidon (117e–18a), have long occupied scholars trying to understand the reason for the ‘debt’, but the choice of sacrificial animal has equally surprised. Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs...Villing, Alexandra
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A visitor-focused approach to interpretation and learning
An illustrated overview of the British Museum's interpretation and learning programme centred around the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World that opened at the British Museum in 2018. The chapter discusses new way of interpreting objects in the Museum's collection based on years of visitor research as well as...Frost, Stuart
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Recent discoveries at Dangeil, Nile State: exploring the Amun temple complex
A summary of the recent discoveries at Dangeil, Sudan, specifically the Amun temple complex in a collection of essays dedicated to the archaeology and the ancient history of Nubia.Anderson, Julie ; Bashir, Mahmoud Suliman ; Ahmed , Salah Mohammed
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Die sozioökonomische und politische Kontext der Archäologie auf Zypern im 19. Jahrhundert
A study of the socio-economic and political situation linked to archaeology in 19th-century Cyprus in a volume about the German archaeologist, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.Kiely, Thomas ; Merrillees, Robert
archaeology and Cyprus
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Auf Max Ohnefalsch-Richter Spuren im British Museum
An overview of the relationship between the archaeologist Max Ohnefalsch-Richter Spuren and the British Museum.Kiely, Thomas
British Museum, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Monumentality and urbanisation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: rethinking Schaeffer’s Bâtiment 18 at Enkomi
A study of monumentality and ubanisation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus, with a particular reappraisal of Schaeffer's Batiment 18 at the site of Enkomi.Kiely, Thomas
Bronze Age, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Cyprus and Assyria
A overview of the relationship between Cyprus and Assyria at the time of Ashurbanipal in an exhibition catalogue to accompany the 2018 British Museum exhibition, I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria.Kiely, Thomas
Assyria, Ashurbanipal, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Beyond the boundaries of the Periplus: the Persian Gulf route in the supply to Myos Hormos and Berenike
This article compares the quantity of Parthian and Sassanian pottery found at the Egyptian Red Sea ports of Myos Hormos and Berenike. It demonstrates greater interconnections during the Sassanian period than the Parthian, correlating to the rise in international importance of the Sassanian empire.Tomber, Roberta
Parthian pottery, Myos Hormos, Red Sea, Sassanian pottery, Berenike, and Persian Gulf
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